Hunger

CARE staff in Gaza: hunger, grief, and relentless danger

By Becca Mountain • May 28, 2025

In Gaza, CARE’s staff face the same hunger, danger, and grief as those they serve. They continue their lifesaving work even as their own families are displaced and at risk.

In the ‘shooting zones’ of Haiti

By Billy Dason*, with CARE Staff • April 10, 2024

As violence has escalated in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, CARE’s country staff has not been spared. Despite CARE’s work taking place in five field offices, away from the capital, the organization’s country office has been in Port-au-Prince since 1954. Billy Dason*, a CARE Haiti staff member, has provided an on-the-ground perspective in his own words of what it has been like to live through the

‘Our whole day is spent in hunger’: How community kitchens in Afghanistan work to feed families in need

By Anisa Husain, translations by Arezo Nabizada • April 4, 2024

For the hungry people in the Tawhid Abad village, CARE has been a lifeline, providing families with one of the greatest gifts: daily meals provided to them at no cost.

Lights in the darkness: Preserving Ramadan’s spirit in the shadow of conflict

By Travis Nichols & Hillol Sobhan • March 18, 2024

Ramadan stories from CARE staff members embedded in the heart of the crises across the Muslim world. Joy, resilience, and the struggle to maintain the month's spirit, even during the worst of times.

Where climate loss and damage means life and death

By Travis Nichols & CARE staff • December 11, 2023

At COP28, world leaders are talking about climate "loss and damage" while the people of Somalia are living it.

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Once-in-a-century floods are ravaging Somalia. Here’s how you can help.

By Travis Nichols • November 10, 2023

After enduring drought and climate effects for years, Somalia now faces a once-in-a-century flood disaster, with over a million affected.

Five things you need to know about the 2023 Farm Bill

By CARE staff • September 7, 2023

The U.S. Farm Bill has a big impact on global hunger, international agriculture, and inequality around the world.

What Russia’s withdrawal from the Black Sea Initiative means for global hunger

By Juan Echanove • July 18, 2023

War exacts a terrible cost on the world’s most vulnerable people. Because of our interconnected global food supply chain, this goes far beyond those in the immediate conflict zone.

Democratic Republic of Congo: Escalating conflict leaves already traumatized survivors in dire need

By David Mutua • March 29, 2023

In the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, villages have been left empty, farms are overgrown, and shopping centers are desolate as conflict rages on. Since March 2022, more than 600,000 people have fled their homes and sought refuge in collective centers such as makeshift camps, school yards, and church grounds in Nyiragongo, Kanyabayonga, Sake, and Goma.

What about Somalia?

By Walter Mawere • March 29, 2023

For the past two years, I have seen communities across Somalia that have lost everything and do not know where the next meal will come from. My team and I have been raising the alarm for more than a year on the impending drought, always haunted by the 2011 famine in Somalia that led to the loss of a quarter of a million lives. When the crisis began, we were hopeful that the global community would

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